Street lamps:
Darkness mellowed!
Localized peace,
Elsewhere bawdy menace!
Grunge of stars
Celestial rust
Stolen (but invalid) atm card
While the night guard
Snorts; alas!
A motorcade kills the trance:
Importance unanimous
Passed in the holy parliament,
Tested…well-judged!
I hurry to other alleys
Leaving behind a heave of dust…
No great man!
No vision
Greater than refilling stomach!
No identity:
Thief or melodramatic tramp!
Strange to earth
Estranged from kindness,
For what flows inside
Isn’t human-blood! ...
When I was born?
Where I was born?
To whom I was born?
Why I was born?
Paroxysm of questions!
No concussion of relief!...
Safe now beneath a bridge!
…Yes you can call it home!
Here to close my eyes, fall asleep—
Past into the dreams of fierce horses,
Fireflies and some papery kiss!